I have been a good girl this year. For Christmas, will you please grant me the Christmas miracle of Jenna Louise Coleman breathing new life into the show.
The entire first half of series 7 has felt so pointless. I REALLY hope that Clara brings some much needed new energy to the show and that it becomes good again.
Agreed. I wish Amy & Rory had left in the first or second episode, then we meet the new companion for real. I mean, I liked having Arthur Weasley there, but pretty much every episode was just there to try to make me feel all the feels about the Ponds so that I would cry when they left. But since it was by Moffat, it didn't work and I just laughed.
Well I'm ready for this new companion. Not that I didn't like Amy & Rory but their time was up. I didn't really feel it was the send off had much emotional impact for me though. Maybe had they gone out at the end of S6 but this half of S7 was just blah.
I feel like Moffat messed up by giving Rory and Amy one good exit episode and then not wanting to quite let go of them so their subsequent appearances felt weird. I did appreciate that with the Angels!departure, it was finally made abundantly clear how much Amy loved Rory to the point of jumping off a building with him and zapping herself back in time to be with him.
this. it was emotional yes but it was long overdue and it felt a bit rush at times.i loved the ponds but i was beginning to feel tired with them coz it felt i was watching the same thing over and over again
I honestly skipped the past years with Amy and Rory just because I was apathetic towards them. This is the first episode I've seen with them as companions, but I get that feeling.
honestly it felt like a lot of their episodes always had high stakes. almost every other episode could have been their final goodbye. but i did like the amy + rory dynamic, at least.
I felt like this was going for the emotional ripping of Rose's goodbye, but by this point, you could tell everyone was done. They would of had a better send off back at the end of S6.
It's possible - new Who's used future companion actors in a past part - Freema had a bit part in Army of Ghosts (which Martha would refer to as a cousin of hers), Eve Myles had a part in Nine's Christmas episode before joining Torchwood.
The Freema and Eve stuff was unintentional. But apparently when Moffat was casting for the new companion he thought it'd be a cool idea to have the new companion play this character in 7x01 too. So either it's just an obnoxious red herring or there is an intentional connection there. IDK.
This episode had me weeping openly and I've never been attached to Amy and Rory, but Idoncurr. The condition of it all was so goddamn depressing. Then right after the show ended, they played that Google Chrome commercial where the girl goes off to college and chats with her dad all the way through and she gets depressed, then her dad sends her a picture of her dead mother saying "if she could get through it, so can you" and oh god. And I'm pmsing. Creys.
I wept too. Like a fucking baby, tbh. Although I watched the episode from an online stream because I can't with commercials interrupting and taking me out of ~the moment~
I'm pretty sure she's going to be working at some kind of living history museum, and the Doctor lands there and thinks he's the 1870s or whatever, then sees someone with a cell phone and he freaks out. It's just so Moffat.
It would be really nice to have a non-contemporary companion though.
I have been a good girl this year. For Christmas, will you please grant me the Christmas miracle of Jenna Louise Coleman breathing new life into the show.
Yours truly,
And she was Melia in Xenoblade!
Edited at 2012-09-30 03:05 am (UTC)
GAH.
Does anyone else think she's just related to the Oswin we met in Ep1, granddaughter, maybe twin sister?
This episode had me weeping openly and I've never been attached to Amy and Rory, but Idoncurr. The condition of it all was so goddamn depressing. Then right after the show ended, they played that Google Chrome commercial where the girl goes off to college and chats with her dad all the way through and she gets depressed, then her dad sends her a picture of her dead mother saying "if she could get through it, so can you" and oh god. And I'm pmsing. Creys.
Please don't be like River or Amy (as much as i like Amy)
It would be really nice to have a non-contemporary companion though.